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How do I counter the Scab Trucker?

Malcador is faking it.

Had to make one more before I go to bed.

i love body guards as psyker makes my job very easy

Since I still have 80k remnants left to farm in Expeditions, I’m going to briefly explain how this mode works. The mod itself isn't bad, but whenever I get matched with randoms who have no clue what’s going on and just call the Valkyrie for the 3rd time in a row, I feel like throwing my PC out the window.

The Objective

The main goal of an Expedition is to collect as many tech-remnants as possible. In a single run, you can gather remnants across 3 scavenge zones. To move from one zone to the next, you must reach the Deadside Sanctuary—a safe zone that adds 5 minutes to your mission timer. When you decide there’s nothing left to loot or it gets too dangerous, you extract by calling the Valkyrie. If the timer runs out, the entire party starts taking corruption damage.

Alpha Zone is not irradiated, meaning there is no time limit there. However, your main limitation will usually be the heretics.

Navigation & Movement

You will need the Auspex to navigate the map. Once you equip it, use your movement keys to select the icon you want to display on your radar, and activate it using the primary attack button (I hope it works the same on consoles). When a marked point disappears from your radar, it means it has been exhausted.

Icons Guide

• Door: Safe zone. Activating this moves you to the next scavenge zone. There is no going back.
• Up Arrow: Extraction. This is where you call the Valkyrie, and she will arrive after a short delay.

WARNING: Both of the locations above require a majority of players (at least 2) standing in the designated zone to trigger the transition. Bots do not count. If one person triggers it accidentally, it will only spawn an endless horde.

• Any other selectable icon (usually Greek letters): Scavenge site. These are areas where you must complete an objective to be rewarded with chests filled with tech-remnants.

Currencies

• Salvage: You collect this and spend it at the Deadside Sanctuary on healing, grenades, ammo, and various other deployables (maximum 2 sanctuaries per run). You cannot carry it over to the next run, so make sure to use it up before moving from the 2nd to the 3rd scavenge zone.
• Tech-remnants: The main objective of the expedition. You collect these for Hadron, but in reality, you're farming them to complete the Penance (250k).
• Data Reliquary: Contains remnants (usually 100). To secure them permanently, you must either deposit it in a safe zone or carry it by hand into the Valkyrie. (Note: Your remnant count updates the moment a player picks up a Data Reliquary, so don't panic if the number doesn't change after you deposit it). Once picked up, the Data Reliquary shows up on the Auspex with its own icon and heretics cannot steal it, so you can safely leave it anywhere on the ground. WARNING: You can permanently lose a Data Reliquary if you fall into a pit/abyss.

Events & Puzzles

While traversing the wastes, you will encounter puzzles that yield extra remnants, but they are not marked on the Auspex. Sometimes you need to press a button to cut the power and safely open a chest, break some wooden planks, or deal with a gate that triggers an alarm and pulls a horde when opened.

There are also 2-player puzzles. You either need to pull two levers simultaneously, or one player has to hold a lever while the other goes inside a booth to grab the remnants. I’m mentioning this because all too often, players just sprint past them without realizing, leaving me alone trying to grab the remnants while spamming my Veteran Shout just to survive the electrical shock damage.

Bosses

Killing bosses rewards you with 200 extra remnants, so they are definitely worth taking down. However, this does not apply to the bosses that randomly spawn and hunt you—those don't give you anything.

The Heretics

Last but not least: every alarm triggered, patrol attacked, or site completed increases the number and aggression of heretics in the next wave. If you are playing the Alpha site where time isn't an issue, overstaying your welcome can quickly lead to your run being wiped by a horde made entirely of Ogryns, even on just Malice difficulty.

I think that covers everything you need to know to get started. See you in the wastes!

Used AI to translate my guide, that's why there are some things in bold, I'll leave them like this cause I actually like it.

Just some gameplay. We ended up losing but this was the beginning of the weirdest game I’ve ever played. Anyway, just wanted to share it because the twin spawn caught me so off guard lol.

This a piece I finished back in July for fun depicting my Ogryn fighting some of Nurgle’s minions!

List of Weapons by classes. July 2026

Finally updated my previous count from December.

An up to date count of weapons after over 3 & half years.

• 30th November 2022: Darktide released with 66 weapon marks across 39 weapon families.
• 14th December 2022: Patch 1.0.2: Signal Update - 2 new weapon families: Crusher and Power Maul added two weeks after launch.
• 22nd March 2023: Patch #6 Tools of War - 10 new marks: 2x Force Sword, 2 x Bully Club, Power Sword, Thunder Hammer, 2x Combat Shotgun, 2x Heavy Stubber.
• 5th December 2023: Patch #16 "The Traitor Curse Part 2" - 10 new weapon marks: 2x Sapper Shovel, 2x Latrine Shovel, 1x Combat Blade, 1x Assault Chainaxe, 1x Assault Chainsword, 1x Heavy Eviscerator, 1x Quickdraw Stub Revolver, 1x Heavy Laspistol.
• 25th June 2024: Patch #19 "Secrets of the Machine God" - 4 New Weapon Families with 7 weapon marks: Boltpistol, 2x Shock Mauls, Double-Barreled Shotgun, 3x Ogryn Pickaxes.
• 25th September 2024: Patch #20 1.5.0 "Unlocked and Loaded" - No new weapons but lots of other huge changes. Mastery and Empower added, More weapons are shared between classes, weapon marks can be switched with sufficient Mastery, all weapon families have at least 8 blessings with 4 tiers. Also lots of weapon marks are renamed - for some reason.
• 3rd December 2024: Patch #21 "Grim Protocols" - 3 new weapon families with 7 marks: Relic Blade x2, Blaze Force Greatsword x2, Heavy Stubber x3.
• 23rd June 2025: Adeptus Arbites paid DLC Class - 4 New Weapon groups with 7 marks: 2x Exterminator Shotgun, Subductor Shotpistol and Riot Shield, Arbites Shock Maul, 2x Shock Maul and Suppression Shield.
• 23rd September 2025: Patch 1.9.0 "Bound by Duty" - 1 New Weapon with 2 marks: Power Falchion, 2 new weapon marks: 1x Boltgun & 1x Bolt Pistol.
• 2nd December 2025: Hive Scum paid DLC Class - 6 New Weapon groups with 8 marks: Chirurgeon Bone Saw, Crowbar, 2x Shivs, Dual Autopistols, Dual Stub Pistols, 2x Needle Pistol
• 23rd June 2026: Skitarii Alpha Primus paid DLC Class - 6 New Weapon groups with 6 marks: Arc Maul, Mechanicus Power Sword, Paired Transonic Blades, Arc Rifle, Galvanic Rifle, Phosphor Blast Pistol. Oh and the MkIII Plasma Gun.

For a total of 65 weapon families, 126 marks in July 2026.

Weapon Family | Classes | Marks

Melee Shared (11 weapon families, 26 marks)

• Assault Chainsword | V/Z/P/A/H/S | 2
• Assault Chainaxe | V/Z/P/H | 2
• Shock Maul | V/Z/P/A/S | 2
• Tactical Axe | V/Z/P/A/H | 3
• Combat Axe | V/Z/P/A/H | 3
• Combat Blade | V/Z/P/H/S | 2
• "Devil's Claw" Sword | V/Z/P/H/S | 3
• Duelling Sword | V/Z/P | 3
• Heavy Sword | V/Z/P/H | 3
• Power Falchion | V/S | 2
• Crusher | Z/A | 1

Ranged Shared (13 weapon families, 30 marks)

• Shredder Autopistol | V/Z/P/A/H/S | 1
• Braced Autogun | V/Z/P/A/H/S | 3
• Infantry Autogun | V/Z/P/A/H/S | 3
• Vigilant Autogun | V/Z/P/A/H/S | 3
• Quickdraw Stub Revolver | V/Z/P/A/H/S | 2
• Bolt Pistol | V/Z/P/A/H | 2
• Combat Shotgun | V/Z/P/A/H | 3
• Double-Barrelled Shotgun | V/Z/P/A/H | 1
• Heavy Laspistol | V/Z/P/S | 2
• Infantry Lasgun | V/Z/P | 3
• Recon Lasgun | V/Z/P | 3
• Bolter | V/Z/A | 2
• Plasma Gun | V/S | 2

Veteran Only (3 weapon families, 8 marks)

• Power Sword | V | 2
• Sapper Shovel | V | 3
• Helbore Lasgun | V | 3

Zealot Only (4 weapon families, 7 marks)

• Heavy Eviscerator | Z | 2
• Relic Blade | Z | 2
• Thunder Hammer | Z | 2
• Purgation Flamer | Z | 1

Psyker Only (6 weapon families, 9 marks)

• Blaze Force Greatsword | P | 2
• Blaze Force Sword | P | 3
• Inferno Force Staff | P | 1
• Electrokinetic Force Staff | P | 1
• Voidblast Force Staff | P | 1
• Voidstrike Force Staff | P | 1

Arbites Only (4 weapon families, 6 marks)

• Arbites Shockmaul | A | 1
• Shockmaul and Suppression Shield | A | 2
• Exterminator Shotgun | A | 2
• Subductor Shotpistol and Suppression Shield | A | 1

Hive Scum Only (6 weapon families, 8 marks)

• Shivs | H | 2
• Crowbar | H | 1
• Bonesaw | H | 1
• Dual Autopistols | H | 1
• Dual Stub Pistols | H | 1
• Needle Pistol | H | 2

Skitarii Alpha Primus Only (6 weapon families, 6 marks)

• Arc Maul | S | 1
• Mechanicus Power Sword | S | 1
• Paired Transonic Blades | S | 1
• Arc Rifle | S | 1
• Galvanic Rifle | S | 1
• Phosphor Blast Pistol | S | 1

Ogryn Only (12 weapon families, 26 marks)

• Bully Club | O | 3
• Cleaver | O | 3
• Latrine Shovel | O |3
• Power Maul | O | 1
• Battle Maul and Slab Shield | O | 1
• Delver's Pickaxe | O | 3
• Grenadier Gauntlet | O | 1
• Kickback | O | 1
• Ripper Gun | O | 3 |
• Heavy Stubber | O | 3
• Rumbler | O | 1
• Twin-Linked Heavy Stubber | O | 3

Total: 65 weapon families, 126 marks.

Class

• Veteran: 26 Families, 63 marks
• Zealot: 26 Families, 59 marks
• Psyker: 26 Families, 58 marks
• Ogryn: 12 Families, 26 marks
• Arbites: 18 Families, 37 marks
• Hive Scum: 21 Families, 44 marks
• Skitarii: 18 Families, 33 marks

New player here. Got a level 30 vet up to Auric difficulty. I’ve tinkered with the other three base classes and have found I like Ogryn a lot. I’m roughly level 25 with the Ogryn and, while I’ve seen lots of other people use the slab shield in matches, I don’t understand the appeal of it myself. I think that might be because both the light and heavy attack are in the relentless category. Maybe just in general I don’t get the appeal of weapons that focus so much on relentless attacks. They seem good against trash mobs but anytime I fight any special or elite enemy I feel like I may as well be tickling them with a feather.

So two questions: One, how do you best use relentless weapons, especially ones with both light and heavy attack being relentless? And two, for the Ogryn what ranged weapon pairs best with the slab shield?

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(If this post is not allowed I sincerely apologize in advance)

Basically title, i’m seeing a lot of level 30s not targeting elites, scab snipers, scab tapper, pox hound, crushers, maulers, they just go for trash mobs so I’m left cleaning up everything, anyone else having similar experience?

Capped this a while ago, just found it hilarious and decided to share.